The overall aim of this research is to explore the business relationships among Russian and Polish firms. The research performed is based on the selected literature area of industrial relationships, relationship quality, negotiations, international environment. With exploratory purpose, the embedded single case study strategy is applied in this research. The empirical data is gathered through focus group discussion among five participants and seven interviews. The findings indicate that the nature of relationships among the Polish and the Russian companies is positive, fruitful and beneficial for both sides. Companies are mainly satisfied with cooperation and overall activities are managed at expected level. Problematic issues are solved successfully with the help of negotiations. The environmental factors which are identified as the main barriers and obstacles are the political climate, legal issues and infrastructure. As the Russian market and its law are complex and difficult, the Polish companies are aware of these factors and are trying to follow all demands given by the Russian companies. Finally, negotiations are provided as the measures to strengthen their relationships and to cope with all the factors, which can have negative impact, by mutual agreements and decisions. Based on our analysis and conclusions, the companies are recommended to ensure better code of business practices and to reveal more confidence among each other.

At the moment we are going through changes of the education reform, which offers us to implement significant novelties. First of all, we are offered to change the authoritarian administration stile into the democratic. The relationship between executives of the institution and its employees are very important in the process, because it directly influences social - psychological climate, success of the executives and motivation of the educationalists of the organization they work in. The research tries to show some changes which have already happened in communicational level between these two working groups. The aim of the work is to make a research and to evaluate features and nature of industrial relationship between executives and educationalists in pre-school educational institutions of Vilnius. In order to reach the aim the following tasks were raised: to determine what exact industrial relationship are between executives and educationalists and to survey mutual attitude of these people on the professional activity; to examine the nature of nowadays communication and its impact on how a person feels in collective; to distinguish the most appreciated features of character for executives and for educationalists, which are the most important working in a pre-school institutions. The research was made in Vilnius pre-school educational institutions using the questionnaire interview method. The respondents were chosen random and the received data was processed mathematically... [to full text]